Job 18:13
His limbs are consumed, Yea, his limbs are devoured by the first-born of death.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
In Context
12His strength is wasted by hunger, And destruction is ready at his side.
14He is torn from his tent, which was his confidence, And is borne away to the king of terrors.
Cross References
Job 17:16It must go down to the bars of the under-world, As soon as there is rest for me in the dust.
Jonah 2:6I sank down to the foundations of the mountains; The bars of the earth were about me forever; Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah, my God!
Revelation 6:8And I saw, and lo! a pale horse, and the name of him that sat on him was Death; and the underworld was following with him; and there was given to them power over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with famine, and with death, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
Matthew Henry on Job 18:12-21
11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. 12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. 13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. 14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. 15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. 16 His roots shall be dried up… Read the whole commentary →